abstractive

American  

[ab-strak-tiv] / æbˈstræk tɪv /

adjective

1. having the power of abstracting.

2. pertaining to an abstract or summary.

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Other Word Forms

• abstractively adverb
• abstractiveness noun
• unabstractive adjective
• unabstractively adverb

Etymology

Origin of abstractive

From the Medieval Latin word abstractīvus, dating back to 1480–90. See abstract, -ive

Example Sentences

The first thing to do is to get hold of the class of abstractive elements which are in some sense the points of space.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

In my last lecture I have already investigated one class of abstractive elements, namely moments.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

We have no intuitive insight into their natures; all our knowledge here is abstractive and discursive.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

It is obviously convenient to sweep away out of our thoughts all these stray abstractive sets which are covered by event-particles without themselves being members of them.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Momental areas can evidently be defined as abstractive elements by exactly the same method as applied to solids.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North